IT Hire Wire

It’s a strange limbo we are in these days- some of us grew up hand writing school assignments; children nowadays grow up with computers in their house and some of us were even part of the experiment. At times it seems technology is evolving more quickly than the people using it.

In an age where having the smallest, fastest and yet most powerful system is of the utmost importance- many forget that there are people out there who struggle with sending an email or writing a word document.

In grammar school, hardly anybody had a home computer; in fact the extent of our knowledge was playing Oregon Trail in the school library and printing black and white birthday cards for our friends and family on Dot Matrix Printers. We used to save our documents on 5.25” Floppy Discs until of course the fancy new 3.5” Floppy Discs were developed. To us this was some amazing new technology! Little did we know that re-writable CD’s, thumb drives and other memory cards were on the way or what an essential part of life all of this “computer stuff” would become.

Since then, monitors have evolved from their humble black and green origins to Flat Panels and LCD’s. The internet has evolved from landlines to DSL and Cable Modems to Fiber Optic Technology (FIOS) and it is as commonplace to have the internet as it is to have a TV in one’s home. IPods and other MP3 players are replacing CD’s and soon enough the PC as we know it will be completely outdated and replaced by something with more memory that is smaller, sleeker and faster.

Long gone are the days where one could hand write a school assignment, nor do we even have to go the library to find information anymore. “Googling” is an every day expression and people can do all their shopping from the convenience of their home (or office!).

With all of this in mind, we need not get ahead of ourselves, after all the Pentium III is still the only processor that can survive in space and there are still some folks out there who rely on stamps, a pen and paper to correspond with friends.

Related Posts

1. My Son’s Dream
2. Cell Phones, iPods and a Venti Zen tea from Starbucks!!
3. Interview with Generation “Y Do I Need a Computer?”
4. My Computers. My IT Attitude.
5. IT Magic and Wizardry